Suicide Bombers - What are they accomplishing?

Maybe I'm just dumb, but I just can't see the logic in suicide bombings. In Iraq, these bombings are extremely frequent, as we all know. And,
essentially, it is Muslim terrorists blowing up other Muslims. Same thing with the recent attacks in Egypt. To me, this makes no sense at all. What
is this possibly going to accomplish, for anyone, by killing all these people?

These terrorists are accomplishing nothing besides taking innocent lives, many of them sharing their religion/race/nationality, although in the vast
majority of cases, not their extremist ideologies. Maybe that is the key, the extremism. I don't know. I just know that by any reasonable
standard, it is a senseless waste of precious human life, and those that die are dying for absolutely nothing, both victims and perpetrators.

I'm hoping to start a good discussion here about the possible motivations for suicide bombing. I can't think of anything that is in the least bit
convincing. I'm at a loss to understand the fundamental why of it all.

My guess that these people are mind-controlled individuals that were triggered to perform something or some action(s)...

As standard procedures, most of them either return back to their programmer or commit suicide....so, for example a suicide bomber would be like one of
those programmed individual who is not planning to come back to his/her programmer(s)...

Maybe the people behind some of the more questionable and puzzling 'suicide' bombings in Iraq have nothing to do with the insurgency.

Sometimes bombings ONLY work in favor of the warlords in the Pentagon.

You do have to ask, why would an Iraqi want to blow up innocent Iraqis? of course the only answer you'll officially get is something to do with
'freedom' and 'blah blah, woof woof' but on the other hand, if it were someone like the CIA who are behind these bombings via a proxy terrorist
group (as they have been known to use multiple times before) in order to drum up support for the troops, insight civil war amongst the Iraqs and more
importantly, to not let the 'terrorism' fear simmer down, who would question that in a world in which the media only 'report' from whitehouse and
pentagon press releases?

If you have trillions of dollars invested in something that relies on a consistant enemy attacking consistantly, openly and publically, it would be in
your best interest to make sure these 'attacks' keep occuring.

Some people think human lives are worth more to those that live in the world of billion dollar empires. HAHA, human lives in an over-populated world
are nothing but bargining chips for these 'people'.

The Hawks want you to believe all terrorism is an act of extreemists, they don't want you to see them blurring the line that clearly defines their
contolled terrorism from rouge extreemists because they want you to fear a solid enemy and believe it's out there in all corners of the world,
developing hatred out of thin air and without any assistance at all expect from 1 man hiding in a cave somewhere.

Is this your point. Please tell me there is more to your reply that I for one can support your thoughts - on?
I must be mis-reading your words. Can you help me to understand your full point of view please?

Nothing will change until the underlying reasons are dealt with. Expecting extremeists to listen to reason is futile. Extremeism of all types is a
mental illness because the real world has ceased to exist. Only the object of the extremeism matters.

Yes but is it now a race against time - not education. I mean, by the time western culture can make a dent in the mid-east destitute peoples, they may
have already strapped on a WMD and walked into our country to detonate.

They are making us aware of a number of things... their struggle, their ideology, their calous disregard for life. They are also demonstrating their
defiance of the West whom in their eyes is the evil in the world.
They alienate their people from the rest of the world, and hold the rest of us back from making any meaningful gains or contributions to humanity.

In short, they are twisted with hatred, blind with rage, and devoid of elementary grace. They are also fanatical beyond a civilized worlds belief.

They are hated, hunted, and wasted.
They hold a free world hostage.
They do little to contribute to the global community, do harm to each other, and do nothing notable except inflict pain and suffering.
They are of a cave man mentality (fight or flight... boom and tomb might be more apt) and don't fit in with society.
They are also convinced that they are right.
They claim to be spiritual and yet the only spirit they invoke is evil.
As a Christian I'm supposed to love them but they make it hard...
they're not exactly your over-achievers

This is what did they accomplish by the suicide bombings mentioned in that article:

Everywhere it has been used, the countries that face it make concessions: The United States left Lebanon; Israel withdrew from Lebanon and now (much
of) the West Bank; and Sri Lanka gave the Tamils a semiautonomous state.

Thanks for the link Ace, I learned some things from it. In all honesty, we have a hard time understanding the why and the How they could do it. When
life has little meaning or no value isn't the case... they do it as their only option against a bigger (occupying) foe.. Intersting note there from
a member of Rand, he claims we should get out expeditiously. I still wonder if it wasn't a think tank that got us in there in the first place.

* They're a bit like Bush, "agree with me or be destroyed." Many muslims and almost all westerners don't agree with their fanatic extremist
ideologies. So they decide to rid the world of these people because they think Allah wants them to, or at least strike fear in their hearts and minds
by the means of these bombings. They're accomplishing something here.

* As they've said in many of their messages, they want every nation to pull their troops from Iraq. Haven't some countries pulled their troops
because of these attacks and kidnappings? and in general they want revenge on the western countries for meddling in the mid-east.

* Disasters make big market fluctuations, if you could predict these disasters, you could make lots of money in the market. Maybe someone is
brainwashing these muslims into doing these attacks in order to get some cold hard cash?

* These attacks could be orchestrated by the Bush administration and now perhaps by other governments in Europe to justify declarations of war against
countries in the mid-east (possibly others too) in order to secure oil reserves and what not, to justify the removing of our civil liberties (to catch
these "terrorists") and eventually declaration of marshall law, in order to gain full control of the country and the people.

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